''The Cobi Troupe'' is a Spanish animated television series produced by the Olympic Organizing Committee Barcelona'92 and BRB Internacional. With creative and artistic direction by Javier Mariscal, screenplay by

Tricicle Tricicle is a humorous gestural theater company of three actors, Joan Gràcia, Paco Mir, and Carles Sans. They founded the company in 1979 to perform brief sketches in the street and at alternative venues. At that time, the three members of Tr ...

and music by Xavier Capellas, it recounts the adventures of Cobi, the official mascot of the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, his friend

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, the official mascot of the

1992 Summer Paralympics )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , athletes = 3,020 (BCN)1,600 (MAD) , opened_by = Queen Sofía , opening = 3 September (BCN)15 September (MAD) , closing = 14 September (BCN)22 September (MAD) , even ...

, and their group of friends.

Premise

Cobi resides in the

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Tibidabo hill Tibidabo () is a hill overlooking Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At , it is the tallest hill in the Serra de Collserola. Rising sharply to the north-west, it has views over the city and the surrounding coastline. The summit of the hill is occupied ...

in Barcelona, together with his friend

and their group of friends they live great adventures before and during the

and

Paralympic Games The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

, where they confront the plans of the villain Doctor Normal and his assistant Tamino.

Production

''The Cobi Troupe'' was created with the aim of promoting the Games to be held in Barcelona in 1992. Produced by the Olympic Organizing Committee Barcelona'92 (COOB'92) and BRB Internacional, it had a budget of 350 million pesetas. The drawings and animation were made by BRB Internacional itself in Madrid, with the exception of some episodes which were animated by the Jade Animation studio in China, under the creative and artistic direction of Javier Mariscal himself, the actual designer of the official mascots. His studio had design responsibility for all the characters and control over the making of the animation. The series, with 26 half-hour episodes with three short stories each, focused on a children's audience between five and twelve years old, has a simple plot that uses

surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...

to encourage children's imagination written by the members of the theater company

Broadcast

The series, which was originally scheduled to be broadcast in Spain on Televisión Española (TVE), was broadcast on the different regional broadcasters that were part of the Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television (FORTA) in their respective territories, dubbed into the corresponding language, between the end of 1991 and 1992. The broadcasting rights were later bought by twenty-four television channels around the world, including TVE.

Comic albums

Together with the television series, a series of six comic albums was released, merging the plot of several different television episodes together to create a long and continuous story. They were published by Plaza & Janés in Spain in Spanish and Catalan.

References

External links

BRB Internacional website
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